called account for it, and reduce it to a dead logic-formula,
attempt not! Much less shalt thou shriek thyself hoarse, cursing it;
for that, to all needful lengths, has been already done. As an actually
existing Son of Time, look, with unspeakable manifold interest, oftenest
in silence, at what the Time did bring: therewith edify, instruct,
nourish thyself, or were it but to amuse and gratify thyself, as it is
given thee.

Another question which at every new turn will rise on us, requiring
ever new reply is this: Where the French Revolution specially is? In
the King's Palace, in his Majesty's or her Majesty's managements, and
maltreatments, cabals, imbecilities and woes, answer some few:--whom we
do not answer. In the National Assembly, answer a large mixed multitude:
who accordingly seat themselves in the Reporter's Chair; and therefrom
noting what Proclamations, Acts, Reports, passages of logic-fence,
bursts of parliamentary eloquence seem notable within doors, and what
tumults and rumours of tumult become audible from without,--produce
volume on volume; and, naming it History of the French Revolution,
contentedly publish the same. To do the like, to almost any extent, with
so many Filed Newspapers, Choix des Rapports, Histoires Parlementaires
as there are, amounting to many horseloads, were easy for us. Easy but
unprofitable. The National Assembly, named now Constituent Assembly,
goes its course; making the Constitution; but the French Revolution also
goes its course.

In general, may we not say that the French Revolution lies in the heart
and head of every violent-speaking, of every violent-thinking
French Man? How the Twenty-five Millions of such, in their perplexed
combination, acting and counter-acting may give birth to events; which
event successively is the cardinal one; and from what point of vision it
may best be surveyed: this is a problem. Which problem the best insight,
seeking light from all possible sources, shifting its point of vision
whithersoever vision or glimpse of vision can be had, may employ itself
in solving; and be well content to solve in some tolerably approximate
way.

As to the National Assembly, in so far as it still towers eminent over
France, after the manner of a car-borne Carroccio, though now no longer
in the van; and rings signals for retreat or for advance,--it is and
continues a reality among other realities. But in so far as it sits
making the Constitution, on the other hand,